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Congregational Self Study Survey
1.
What opportunities do you see God opening for the congregation to explore?
2.
Describe your worship style or preferences that you have in regard to services at church.
Music
Liturgy
Service Time
Use of Technology
Any other comments
3.
What would you tell the next senior pastor about our community?
4.
What are some of the strengths of St. Johns? What are some of the weaknesses?
Strengths
Weaknesses
5.
What are two things our congregation needs, more than anything else right now, to be effective?
1)
2)
6.
Please try to rank all of the following pastoral “Rating Expectations” (functions, traits, and abilities) according to what you feel is the order of importance for our congregation. A list of definitions for each category is appended to assist you. Please rate each item with a number from 1 to 10, with a 1 rating meaning “of no importance,” and a 10 rating meaning “of utmost importance.” This information will be used to review the job descriptions of the church staff.
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Tact
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Patience
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Cooperation
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Initiative
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Administration
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Leadership
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Innovation
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Creativity
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People Skills
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Community involvement
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Personal grooming
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Participation in continuing ed.
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Conference participation
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Use of computer
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Use of social media
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Children's ministry
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Youth ministry
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Singles' ministry
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Older adult ministry
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Family ministry
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Ministry to inactives
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Small group ministries
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Assimilation of new members
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Lay leadership development
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Personal witnessing
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Counseling
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Preaching content
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Preaching delivery
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Teaching ability
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Worship
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Stewardship
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Sick & shut-in visitation
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Outreach visitation
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Home visitation
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Team ministry
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